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A growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the U.S. are being denied passports, their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates...

Scotusblog explores Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record in criminal cases, with the caveat that the place where he has served as a judge, the District of Columbia, is not a large jurisdiction. The general conclusion: “In criminal cases, Kavanaugh’s body of work is relatively...

No one has been arrested for the July 30 shooting outside a Chicago liquor store that severely injured Deangelo Norwood, 30, and killed his brother, Omar, 35. “That’s the norm in this city. We live amongst a lot of killers,” Norwood tells the Washington Post,...

The Legal Technology Resource Center’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes...

Removing youth from adult jails is going to take a state-by-state, county-by-county and jail-by jail-approach, according to a new report released by the Jail Removal Project at UCLA School of Law.
Using data from the the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Census of Jails, the Annual...

California bail agents worried for their survival are seeking to block a new law that would eliminate the cash bail system for defendants. An industry coalition launched a referendum drive seeking to give voters the final say, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. If backers gather...